ShanghART Gallery 香格纳画廊
中文

Fire - 3000kg
CHEN XIAOYUN 陈晓云
2009 (re-edit in 2016)
single-channel video
Silent
9 minutes 50 seconds
Edition of 6 + 1AP
CXYU072

It uses a violent obstreperous passion to indicate the politics of adolescence which is full of flaming rebellion and rejective attitude and it is an aesthetic appreciation and liberation of a violent revolution. It is similar as one of the screen-shot of the endless political movements in the past 100 years. A group of young people are excited throwing bundled books into blaze. In the carnival atmosphere, there is no political correctness but only beauty of pulling out and ashes of illusion.

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Related Exhibitions:
Busan Biennale 2024, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Korea 08.17, 2024 -10.20, 2024
Shifting Times, Moving Images II: Chen Xiaoyun, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore 06.19, 2021 -07.04, 2021
Hysteria, Metaphorical and Metonymical Life-World, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu 10.27, 2013 -12.27, 2013
Contemporary Art in China, 1990-2012, Zhong Gallery, Berlin, Germany 04.12, 2013 -07.12, 2013
Moving on Asia, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand 02.22, 2013 -06.16, 2013